05 October 2008 . . . . . . Jason Boxman's Dirvish Guide

09 June 2006 . . . . . . c'T magazine article

Dirvish is used around the world. We have subscribers to the mailing
list from at least 15 countries. Recently, we have had many new
subcribers from Germany, who are using dirvish because of an
article
in c'T magazine. Wilkommen! Are any of you Perl programmers?

Steve Ramage wrote a
Windows dirvish guide,
and a guide to setting up ssh and dirvish
There are still some issues with passwords and permissions, but this is
a good start, and avoids the rsync lockup problems sometimes encountered
by dirvish. Check it out!

In other news, I've learned from the director of the
Oregon State University Open Source Lab
that they will be backing up their servers with dirvish. These servers
are the primary mirror sites for Mozilla, Kernel.org, Gentoo, Drupal,
and other major open source projects.

06 June 2005 . . . . . . 1.3.1 Experimental release

The experimental 1.3.1 release is
available for alpha testing. This is a developmental version which
will evolve into production release 1.4 . It has a new installer,
and the code is refactored. Patches and improvements should be made
against this version. It may eat your babies, but please test it anyway!
Do so on an experimental backup server (two sets of backups can't hurt!).
I am running it myself with no problems so far.

Note (09 June 2006): the installer is not set up right, and I am not
getting much development help with 1.3.1 . Until somebody wants to
actively join with me in coding and developing 1.3.1, this will wait.
1.2.1 is good enough for most uses.

19 May 2005 . . . . . . 1.2.1 Baby Step release

I'm running it, others are running it, no complaints so far, so
let's release it. 1.2.1 is a few small fixes that can't wait for
the 1.3.1 development release.
Check the 1.2.1 Release notes (RELEASE.html) for more information.
I will be putting up experimental version 1.3.1 Real Soon Now; you can look
at work in progress on the Subversion viewer.

05 October 2008 . . . . . . Jason Boxman's Dirvish Guide

26 December 2004 . . . . . . New dirvish versions in development

The 1.3.X test version of dirvish is being developed now; please join the
Mailing List
to find out more. The official public release will be 1.4 , which will
occur after stabilization and testing on multiple platforms. We are
addressing some small bug fixes and new installation methods in this version.

There is a three part article on dirvish in the January, February,
and March 2005 issues of
Sys Admin Magazine, at
your favorite techno-newsstand.
As of Tuesday, February 8, 2005, alert readers have found
two errors in the part 2 article.
Here are the examples from part 2 and part 3.
The dirvish-file-restore program mentioned in part 3 is not ready yet.

18 July 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . In memory of jw schultz

jw schultz, author of Dirvish and frequent contributor to the
development of Perl, Rsync, and the Linux kernel, was found dead on
March 27. We will miss him. More information
here.